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Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach
Ecology and Society ( IF 4.1 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-26 , DOI: 10.5751/es-12531-260306
Luigi Piemontese , Rick Nelson Kamugisha , Joy Margaret Biteete Tukahirwa , Anna Tengberg , Simona Pedde , Fernando Jaramillo

In African small-scale agriculture, sustainable land and water management (SLWM) is key to improving food production while coping with climate change. However, the rate of SLWM adoption remains low, suggesting a gap between generalized SLWM advantages for rural development across the literature, and the existence of context-dependent barriers to its effective implementation. Uganda is an example of this paradox: the SLWM adoption rate is low despite favorable ecological conditions for agriculture development and a large rural population. A systemic understanding of the barriers hindering the adoption of SLWM is therefore crucial to developing coherent policy interventions and enabling effective funding strategies. Here, we propose a cross-scale archetype approach to identify and link barriers to SLWM adoption in Uganda. We performed 80 interviews across the country to build cognitive archetypes, harvesting stakeholders’ perceptions of different types of barriers. We complemented this bottom-up perspective with a spatial archetype analysis to contextualize these results across different social-ecological regions. We found poverty trap, overpopulation, risk aversion, remoteness, and post-conflict patriarchal systems as cognitive archetypes that synthesize the different dynamics of barriers to SLWM adoption in Uganda. Our results reveal both specific and cross-cutting barriers. Ineffective extension services emerges as a ubiquitous barrier, whereas gender inequality is a priority barrier for large supported farms and farms in drier lowlands in northern Uganda. The combination of cognitive and spatial archetypes proposed here can help to overcome ineffective “one-size-fits-all” solutions and support context-specific policy plans to scale up SLWM, rationing resources to support sustainable intensification of agriculture.

中文翻译:

在乌干达扩大可持续土地和水资源管理的障碍:跨尺度原型方法

在非洲小规模农业中,可持续土地和水资源管理 (SLWM) 是在应对气候变化的同时提高粮食产量的关键。然而,SLWM 的采用率仍然很低,这表明文献中普遍存在的 SLWM 对农村发展的优势与其有效实施的上下文相关障碍之间存在差距。乌干达就是这种悖论的一个例子:尽管有利于农业发展的生态条件和大量农村人口,但 SLWM 的采用率仍然很低。因此,系统地了解阻碍采用 SLWM 的障碍对于制定连贯的政策干预措施和实现有效的筹资战略至关重要。在这里,我们提出了一种跨规模的原型方法来识别和联系乌干达采用 SLWM 的障碍。我们在全国范围内进行了 80 次访谈,以建立认知原型,收集利益相关者对不同类型障碍的看法。我们通过空间原型分析补充了这种自下而上的观点,以将这些结果在不同的社会生态区域中结合起来。我们发现贫困陷阱、人口过剩、风险规避、偏远和冲突后的父权制系统作为认知原型,综合了乌干达采用 SLWM 的不同障碍动态。我们的结果揭示了特定和跨领域的障碍。无效的推广服务成为普遍存在的障碍,而性别不平等是乌干达北部干旱低地的大型支持农场和农场的优先障碍。
更新日期:2021-07-26
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